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I congratulate you for understanding the difficulty inherent with bias. As a corporate lawyer I have to cope with perspective and bias problems all the time. Trying to determine perspective of adversarial positions on a current issue is nearly impossible unless you look backwards in time - that's exactly why internet news sources are useless for understanding viewpoints that oppose your own. If I'm researching a legal issue I have legal resources that aren't relevant here, but for non-legal issues I have to go elsewhere. This sounds absolutely ridiculous, but I usually start with Wikipedia for everything unless I'm looking up specific case law. The minimum wage in the US Wikipedia article is not terribly helpful in this case, but it's at least a starting point. Of course, you can't cite Wikipedia as a primary source (usually), but you can sometimes identify the source of the competing viewpoints' theories and biases and how exactly they conflict. I can only imagine how your classroom discussion went, but minimum wage arguments are hyperpartisan and this issue in particular is one that both sides usually do not argue convincingly at all.
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